Is Furnished Finder Worth It for Landlords?

The short answer

How Furnished Finder works for landlords

Furnished Finder started with travel nurses and now serves every kind of midterm traveler. By its own numbers, more than 6 million travelers searched for housing there in the past year, corporate travelers are now its largest group (35% of booking requests), relocating families are its fastest-growing one, and the average stay was 107 days as of December 2025.

The model is simple, and it’s what separates it from Airbnb:

You pay once a year to list. No commission on any stay.
Travelers find the listing and message you. You answer, share details and decide who to rent to.
Everything after the lead is yours: screening, the lease, the deposit and monthly rent — with optional Furnished Finder tools for each, below.

What Furnished Finder costs

Furnished Finder costs for landlords, as of September 2026 — from Furnished Finder’s help center; check current pricing before you sign up
Topic	Cost	Who pays	Notes
Listing	$199 a year	Landlord	One property; renews each year
Extra unit, same address	$149 a year each	Landlord	A duplex side, a basement apartment or a room
Hotel or full apartment complex	$750 a year; $1,000 from Oct 27, 2026	Landlord	Entire buildings
Commission or booking fee	None	—	On any stay
Tenant screening	$44.99	Tenant (or landlord, via KeyCheck)	Credit, criminal and eviction reports
Leases and legal documents	$19.99–$74.99	Landlord	State-specific documents with e-signing, through Rocket Lawyer
Online rent through Baselane	$2 per ACH invoice to an outside bank; 3.49% by card	Tenant	ACH is free into a Baselane checking account

Good to know before you sign up: listings renew each year and payments to Furnished Finder aren’t refundable, so note your renewal date; and a different address needs its own $199 listing.

Furnished Finder background checks

Furnished Finder’s tenant screening is on request, not automatic. You send a screening request from the dashboard or a message thread; the tenant gets an invitation and pays $44.99, unless you choose to pay through KeyCheck. The report is powered by TransUnion and covers:

Credit — a soft check that doesn’t affect the tenant’s score
Criminal background
Eviction history

Most results are ready in a few hours; a few jurisdictions that require records to be pulled by hand take up to five business days. Completed reports can be viewed for 30 days, so save what you need for your records. The report informs your decision, it doesn’t make it: apply the same written criteria to every applicant, and if a report leads you to turn someone down, federal law requires an adverse action notice — see mid-term applications and screening.

On the other side, Furnished Finder requires identity verification for every landlord, property manager and agent account, and landlords can link a LinkedIn profile to show who they are.

Is Furnished Finder worth it for landlords?

For most mid-term homes near demand, yes — the math is lopsided. A year of listing costs $199; a single mid-term stay brings in a month of rent or more. The real costs are your time and your speed. Tyler Sorenson, Nexxus’s founder, has listed furnished mid-term rentals there for years:

We’ve listed on Furnished Finder for years and watched it grow. They’ve put real work into the site lately, and it has become a consistent lead source for us. It’s popular with hosts in our area too, so the operator who answers first with a clear price and dates has the edge.

Tyler Sorenson, founder of Nexxus

It’s likely worth it if your home is within a reasonable drive of hospitals, large employers or a growing metro that people relocate to; you can answer inquiries within hours; and you’re set up to screen, sign a lease and collect rent yourself.

It’s a weaker bet if there’s little traveling or relocation demand near you, you can’t respond quickly, or you want a platform to take payment and handle the booking for you — that’s what Airbnb does.

Getting more from a Furnished Finder listing

Answer fast. Travelers message several homes at once. The first clear answer often wins.
Show the monthly price and what’s included. Utilities, Wi-Fi, parking, laundry — travelers compare total cost.
Keep the calendar current. Furnished Finder can link one Airbnb and one Vrbo calendar per listing (updates take up to 24 hours), but it doesn’t accept other iCal links — so when you sign a lease from another channel, block the dates on Furnished Finder too.
Screen every lead the same way, whichever site it came from.
Use a real lease for every stay, drafted or reviewed by a landlord-tenant attorney. See what a mid-term lease should cover.

Furnished Finder vs Airbnb

They do different jobs, and many operators use both:

Furnished Finder vs Airbnb for stays of a month or more, as of September 2026
Topic	Furnished Finder	Airbnb (28+ nights)
What you get	Leads	Booked, paid stays
Cost	$199 a year per listing, no commission	A service fee on every booking — 15.5% for most hosts
Payment	You collect rent (optionally through Baselane)	Airbnb charges the guest monthly and pays you monthly
Screening	TransUnion report on request, usually tenant-paid	Airbnb verifies identity; no host-ordered credit report
Lease	Your lease	Airbnb’s terms; your contract only if disclosed before booking
Deposit	Yours to set, within state law	Most hosts can’t charge a security deposit
Who you reach	Traveling professionals, corporate travelers, relocating families	Everyone searching Airbnb

In the founder’s rentals, Airbnb brings in roughly half of stays and Zillow and the listing sites — Furnished Finder included — about a quarter. How Airbnb handles long stays is in Airbnb monthly stays.

Furnished Finder alternatives

Airbnb monthly stays — booked and paid through Airbnb; a service fee on every stay.
Zillow Rental Manager — free to list directly as of September 2026, and a listing also appears on Trulia and HotPads.
Corporate Housing by Owner — an annual listing from $399 to $995 depending on the plan.
Your own website — no fees per lead, and the channel that compounds: about a quarter of stays in the founder’s rentals.
Insurance and corporate placement companies — usually free to register with; they place displaced families and relocating employees.
Not alternatives: Blueground and Landing run furnished apartments themselves, and Kopa has shut down.

Costs and what each is good for are in where to list mid-term rentals.

Running Furnished Finder with everything else

Furnished Finder is one door among several, and the doors don’t talk to each other. A Furnished Finder lead becomes a stay only when you sign a lease — and that lease has to land on the same calendar as your Airbnb bookings and your direct bookings, or a home gets promised twice.

That’s the job Nexxus does: it isn’t another place to list, it’s the system behind the listing sites. Nexxus lists homes on Furnished Finder and brings its leads into the same inbox as every other channel. Every Airbnb booking, direct booking and lease sits on one calendar, and the lease you sign — your own, e-signed — sets up the deposit and monthly rent on the tenant’s ledger. See mid-term rental software, or open the live demo set up for mid-term — no sign-up. You may also see these stays called medium-term rentals; the workflow is the same.

The Nexxus calendar with nightly, monthly and yearly stays across a portfolio on one timeline

Furnished Finder for landlords: FAQ

How much does Furnished Finder cost landlords?

As of September 2026, $199 a year per listing, plus $149 a year for each extra unit at the same address (a duplex side, a basement apartment or a room). Entire hotels and apartment complexes pay $750 a year, rising to $1,000 from October 27, 2026. Payments are non-refundable and listings renew each year, so check Furnished Finder’s pricing page before you sign up.

Does Furnished Finder take a commission?

No. Furnished Finder charges landlords the annual listing fee and no commission or booking fee on stays. Tenants don’t pay a booking fee either; they pay for their own screening report when a landlord requests one.

Does Furnished Finder do background checks?

Yes, on request. A landlord sends a tenant screening request from the Furnished Finder dashboard; the report is powered by TransUnion and covers credit (a soft check), criminal background and eviction history. The tenant pays $44.99 unless the landlord pays through KeyCheck, most results arrive within a few hours, and reports can be viewed for 30 days.